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Marco Rodrigues releases tribute album to Carlos do Carmo

Marco Rodrigues Canta Carlos do Carmo is now available on digital platforms and on CD

Marco Rodrigues Canta Carlos do Carmo, the album that pays homage to the late master is finally available today.

For this album, carefully conceived and designed, Marco Rodrigues ensured that he would rigorously respect everything that Carlos do Carmo taught: care with diction, respect for the poem and brilliance in interpretation. To these values are added the excellent musical production, but also the absolutely surprising arrangements by Luís Figueiredo.

Regarding this tribute album, the poet, writer and lyricist, Maria do Rosário Pedreira, wrote a brilliant text that deserves to be read in full, here, but in which Marco Rodrigues Canta Carlos do Carmo allows himself to be revealed in two paragraphs of his own :

“This recreation of Carlos do Carmo’s iconic fados – which is, in itself, as you will have the opportunity to see, an extremely inventive reinterpretation because it evokes everything without imitating anything (listen, for example, to the version by Canoas do Tejo and take the stubbornness away) – this adds up to a real nugget or, as they say today, the icing on the cake: the production of Luís Figueiredo, a genius capable of turning something already heard a thousand times into something unwaxed – which it would be tragic – but brand new (and with a veneer that never cracks!), as can be seen by the application of an admirably tanguist tone to Olhos Garotos or a touch of «vaudeville» to Nasceu Assim, Cresceu Assim. There are many surprises, don’t doubt it, and they are all good.

Therefore, do not have any fears about what I began by calling a great boldness: this album is a gift from heaven for us, but also for the honoured artist, who, wherever he is, will certainly love the introduction of instruments which are anything but obvious in fado, alongside the wonder of having in the cast the magical guitar of Ângelo Freire or the accomplice bass of Marino de Freitas, a musician who I saw so many times play with the dear Carlos on the stages of this country. Nothing was left to chance – and I really, really enjoyed it.”

Carlos do Carmo is the greatest fado reference for Marco Rodrigues, so this tribute comes naturally and in the fado singer’s unmistakable voice we can hear some of the most emblematic fados performed by Carlos do Carmo but recreated in a new life and breath. Accompanied by a careful visual composition created by Carlos Quitério, who designed the cover, and booklet and is the author of the animated videos that will accompany the listening to all the songs on YouTube and which also feature photographs by Simão Pernas.

Marco Rodrigues Canta Carlos do Carmo will also have life on stage, the premiere took place in Lagoa, in the Algarve, precisely at the Carlos do Carmo Auditorium. After this presentation, Marco Rodrigues will take this beautiful album and tribute to the country and beyond.

Marco Rodrigues Canta Carlos do Carmo
  1. Duas Lágrimas de Orvalho
  2. Pontas Soltas
  3. Canoas do Tejo
  4. Por Morrer Uma Andorinha
  5. Nasceu Assim, Cresceu Assim
  6. Olhos Garotos
  7. O Cacilheiro
  8. Estrela da Tarde
  9. Namorados da Cidade
  10. No Teu Poema
  11. Os Putos
  12. Um Homem Na Cidade
  13. Lisboa, Menina e Moça

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